Friday, August 17, 2007

Witch Hill by Marcus Sedgwick

Stars: ****
Accuracy: **

Synopsis:
When Jamie's home burns down, his parents send him to live with family in Crownhill for a while. He starts getting scary dreams about an old woman and the people he's staying with seem to be hiding something.

Review:
This book had me hooked in, wondering what was next and trying to figure things out before they were revealed. The book is scarier than most for the age group of 10-14. If your child scares easily you may want to wait a few years more. Before most of the chapters, there is a little blurb about a town witch, written as if it was written back in the 1500's during the witch craze. It's hard to explain so here's a little: "The witch was found at her lair on the hill where she was consulting with her familiar, the cat named Chub. It was clear from the leaved of herbs around about that they were preparing some more injurious mischief to inflict upon one person or another."

Accuracy:
Witches in this book are evil old hags who use curses on other people for their own gain. Their familiars do their evil bidding. Although the blurbs mentioned above mention Satan (spelled Sathan, not sure why,) in the actual text of the book it is mentioned that witches don't really believe in Satan, that he's a product of Christianity. It also explains that those burned and hung during the witch craze weren't actually witches.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi!
Just added your two new blogs to the group list.
Have you read "Drawing Down the Moon?"
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Anonymous said...

i need a character analysation of alison in this book for tommorow. can some one please help me because im confused onwho she is in the story. thanks x

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